Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy
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Language
English
ISBN
978-1-911534-40-2
1. Introduction
2. The Political Realm
2.1 What is the Place of Politics?
2.2 The Political Realm as Human Artifice
2.3 The Web of Relations and the Three Layer Model of the Political Realm
2.4 Hardware, Software, Wetware
2.5 Immortality and the Political Realm
2.6 The Durability and Commonality of a Potential Online World
2.7 The Political Realm as a Space of Appearance
2.8 The Space of Appearance and the Physical Body
2.9 Ironipolitics and the Internet as Serious Space
2.10 The Social Realm
2.11 Social Networks or Political Networks?
3 Subjectivity
3.1 Political Subjectivity and the Emptiness of the Universal
3.2 The Withdrawal from Identity
3.3 Political Subjectivity Online
3.4 Madness and Protest
3.5 The Madness of Disembodied Online Interaction
3.6 Disembodied Online Subjects
3.7 The Emergence of the Universal
3.8 Anonymity and the Harsh Light of the Public Sphere
3.9 Anti-Political Identification versus Political Subjectivation
4 Participation
4.1 Critiquing Representation
4.2 Beyond Representation: Political Participation and the Metaphor of the Stage
4.3 Participation in an Online Context
4.4 The Actor and the Audience
4.5 The Elitist Argument against Participation: Too Much Quantity Degrades Quality
4.6 The Populist Argument against Participation: Too Much Quality Degrades Quantity
5 Conflict
5.1 Agonism and Antagonism
5.2 Consensus as Exclusion
5.3 Reconciliation and the Political Death Drive
5.4 Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
5.5 Passion and Rationality
5.6 Flame Wars and Civility
5.7 Trolls, Gadflies, and Political Conflict
6 Steps toward the Digitization of Politics
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